StarCraft 2: EPIC GAME - Maru's Hero Battlecruisers!

Maru versus Cure in an epic game of professional StarCraft 2. In this Terran versus Terran we have the game go the distance, as both players decide to go for a wildly different strategy. Easily one of the best games of top-level South Korean TvT that has been played.
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[@bzo218]

28:55 Cure is so underrated, he can summon 13 vipers!

[@Spartsou]

23:17 especially when he had 2 vipers to start out with as Terran, lol

[@Spartsou]

@NatSon Gamez Lowko accidentally called Cure's Ravens, Vipers.

[@Hj4a]

Hahaha yeah this had me so confused, having been away from SC2 for a while I was wondering what weird changes they'd put in for our terrans! xD

[@avalonaura4076]

34:00 those poor marines... Utterly obliterated by a shell the size of a small warship which somehow didn't affect any of their nearby battle-brothers.

[@JWQweqOPDH]

IIRC in the lore it's literally a highly focus nuclear plasma shockwave. Then again, in the lore a BC fits thousands of Marines inside it.

[@Adamoose]

lol

[@BentusiProgenitors]

Damn, Cures got 13 Vipers?! Insane game Lowko

[@joost00555]

Corvid reactor is well named because a Raven is part of the Corvid family.

[@alexchng]

Holy... Shit... That makes so much sense. Are you a MENSA member by any chance? Brilliant

[@tbird81]

Here's the thing. You said a "raven is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls ravens crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to jackdaws. So your reasoning for calling a raven a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A raven is a raven and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a raven is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, jackdaws, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

[@bonbondurjdr6553]

@@tbird81 have you had a good day at work, lately?

[@JonnyCraig33]

@@tbird81 you sound like fun at parties bird boi What are you, Robin from The Batman? Corvid Master over here, make sure you know your taxonomic classifications guys or he’ll fire out full essays on their genealogy trees.

[@vicenteochoa6498]

@@tbird81 some people aren’t gonna get this reference lol

[@volanceleste]

20:10 medivac doing the dance while the missile turret is shooting at it, that made me laugh

[@MattDelaney]

I'm pretty sure this is the best game of TvT to watch I've ever come across. That was sick.

[@louel9272]

34:00 gotta love foot soldiers outrunning capital ships with I don't know how much horsepower in those thrusters

[@glachillaxsoundchannel9014]

And the fact that a handful of foot soldiers can just tear down a capital ship lol totally unrealistic. Also, a single viking with its twin gatling gun should be able kill like 10 marines if this was realistic but instead they made marines too OP in this game.

[@alfo149]

Terran did wonderful in this game. I'm sad that Terran wasn't able to pull through though!

[@diamondsnowwolves1489]

Ah yes, the most feared unit for Terran, vipers

[@Jdog-tt8qe]

This was an epic game of TvT. Thanks for casting lowko!

[@Spartsou]

23:17 Lowko: Now we're gonna go into tank, Viking, viper, Liberator. Me: jeez, Lowko, Vipers in a TVT! Can't wait to see them!

[@gabrieldinglasan]

Never knew terrans can produce vipers 🤣🤣

[@spikeyvulpes]

Maru is such an absolute beast, awesome cast Lowko!

[@richardsmithies2197]

I wonder if Cure was able to finish the battlecruiser at 32:25 if he would've won. Having two BCs compared to one at the end with how close it was may have been the difference. Great game overall by both sides

[@jasonlynch282]

Towards the end Cure needed to get some gas going to produce some vikings over the marines to have better trades in those last fights.

[@katsu9738]

What an intense game!

[@acehughj4527]

Hell yeah Maru tvt eh. This is one of the most brutal matchups to have, seriously. All the mirror matches are brutal but this one..

[@Jabawalk]

23:15 Maru shows he is the GOAT in this game. He even making Vipers and mix into his SkyTerran army

[@HeyThreshold]

7: 35 "The pink colour does look cool on the Terran units: am I crazy?" YES, YOU ARE CRA-ZEE! 😫😣😖

[@Owlr4ider]

Lowko, unita like the Raven or Viper are called support units for a reason. The 'professional' term for it is force multiplier, as in they make your other forces stronger than they otherwise would be. Think of it this way, say if 8 marines and a raven perform as well as 16 marines without the raven than the raven effectively doubled the efficiency of the marine force. A very powerful effect but useless on its own as no matter how much you multiply 0 by it will always remain 0.

[@reaper8113]

This is the type of starcraft 2 games i love to watch. Where it gets all chaos in the end game. And not one player saying gg once they make small mistake

[@SceptrumVirtuale]

Going full sky Terran. Got to bring in them vipers

[@zhoumadeit]

31:17 Maru success drive his opponent out of his main base. But he has also lost his main base. Lmao

[@hellfiresquid]

Cure needed to build more vipers

[@Kamyen316]

"Marines great against taking out battlecruiser"......excuse me what?! Haha

[@basicuser54]

Great game! No other casters providing the level of insight Lowko does so consistently.

[@MrBimos555]

13:59 that little sensor tower, well done

[@csmlouis]

The one thing that I would copy from Maru is building 10+ CC so that when one gets taken down, I have 3 spares to fly into. Now I just have to figure out how to survive and bank enough for 10+ CC...

[@joost00555]

Thanks mr Lowko, I needed this

[@Mastalex91]

Nice TvT to watch with a lot of Viper in the mix seen by our beloved caster 😂

[@messiethehamster957]

15:00 lowko this is a classic plat league move. Everyone here is copying it, except usually there is 3 more tanks behind it and none of the marines see their families ever again.

[@93lozfan]

I'm loving the raven usage. I haven't seen them a lot until recently.

[@Aimbok]

28:56 "13 vipers available" SUS

[@kylelol7018]

Lowko is literally who I go for for both falling asleep late at night and entertainment during the day. His voice is so soothing. Thanks for everything 💜

[@evernewb2073]

the big reason you rarely see landed vikings isn't because they are weak it is because they are clunky and oversized compared to their stats (less damage output and hitpoints per area covered and staging/movement space consumed) so you're basically never going to see viking marching over the ground en-masse even against protoss but in small groups like this they are surprisingly solid units even against stuff that isn't their preferred target type. don't get me wrong, marines will beat them resource for resource but vikings _are_ still a combat unit while landed.

[@jasonlynch282]

Loved the cyclone battles.

[@blueagleification]

what a super amazing T VS T match -

[@bujaksha]

LowKo probably doing a little victory dance when he saw the first Raven

[@marekkralik8290]

this game was so good to watch

[@MrOthello7]

Loko: ,,good morning...'' Me watching at 00:45 ,,you are them right''

[@SawyerKnight]

wow wow wow. Its like watching two Bears fight to the death.

[@Hj4a]

Drinking game: Take a shot every time Lowko says "anyhow" 🤣 Thanks for the excellent cast!

[@mirrorimage2866]

i feel like what maru does different from most terrans is his siegtank possitioning actually. i have the feeling that whenever he gets attacked, there iss a tank that getss taken out or 2, but there are always 2 tanks that are almost a full tank range further back. marus tank lines are very spread out. i just looked it up, so ssiegetanks have apparently 13 range when sieged, i would say most of the time for defenssive lines his tanks then like 9-10 units appart.

[@troelsdc]

TvT isn't boring, its my favourite matchup! Keep it up Lowko!

[@manner7073]

I like SC2 with Loko commentary 100%. When it's a mirror match it goes down to 99%.

[@jayyrod1]

Oh boy that was a blast! Cattle bruisers lul

[@ausboss2916]

Really people don't love TvT? It's my favorite matchup by far

[@ferallhamster970]

Playing it tho. I’d rather put pins under my toenails and kick a wall ngl

[@VinayKapadiaVK]

Tank, Viking, Viper, Liberator? That is quite the interesting comp.

[@DrakeyC]

I knew the Raven energy upgrade name before. Perk of being a wiki editor, you remember things ;p

[@mikeandike9263]

I read cattlebruisers chuckled for a good 15 seconds then had to watch. Best SC2 content there is.

[@kylesanford3666]

Love you Lowko

[@chir0pter]

cool game, i think you're right the upper left base should have had an orbital on it while cure was doing his big offensive- that would have been a game winner

[@mathieugrenier27]

Sick game !! wooow

[@GorastMK]

Epic match!

[@Saint_Gerund]

Nice! Thank a lot, dude! TvT ftw.

[@alejandrotevez6302]

As a technique to remember, ravens and crows are birds of corvid family n_n

[@VeyVonVanille]

Finally!! Maru Battlecruisers!

[@Danger-six.]

one of the best games ive ever seen

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Corvid Reactor is the name for the Ravens Energy upgrade. XD

[@CrayXP]

crazy game !!

[@natecw4164]

*Great* game!

[@linusgerbsch374]

Uh, so good!

[@Pseudometrik]

SCV be like *”I’m workin here”*

[@GundamReviver]

"vikings kinda obvious" nah loko, even the pros think PLANE IS PLANE and forget they can land it. Now florencio, he has mastered the viking.

[@bakajanai.]

Maru stimming into tanks not even surprised at this point. He also did that against lurkers

[@jayyrod1]

Poor jimmy lived just long enough to see the rest of his fire team die in med evac explosion :(

[@andrewwood1364]

amazing game

[@alexchng]

Someone had said that ZvZ is like a knife fight in a phone booth. TvT, to me, looks like two, huge, built dudes just slugging it out in the ring.

[@evernewb2073]

the trick is that if either of them messes up in the slightest during any of those tank exchanges they pretty much just instantly lose the game, and "messing up" is based on stuff you do while playing blind or even just where you think your opponent is paying attention to right that split second if they both somehow do good you get a slugfest but if either of them fails timing or positioning or micro or reacting things snowball against them and there's nothing they can do about it. so I guess if zvz is a knife fight in a phone booth then tvt is a knife fight while standing on a cargo net with each combatant backed up by a team of people all cutting and replacing lines in the net and tossing in objects for footing and trying to throw stuff at the other team's guy. pvp is two guys agreeing to _have_ a knife fight in a phone booth like proper gentlemen but then finding out that both of them are far to classy to know how to open a door so they decide to go crash their hovercars into eachother instead.

[@bakerzstreet4205]

OG always dropping bangers

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

Vikings are made out of tissue paper, but boy can people be punished HARD for forgetting they can land...

[@FaithfulWarriors]

Perfect timing, just opened KZbin

[@zathrasyes1287]

Thx for the great game of chess here.

[@LostOnceLefthanded]

I was going to say flux capacitors, but oh no of course it's the infamous CORVID reactor.

[@ThejaBreLoL]

Great game.

[@GuidingOlive]

Lowko, remember Corvid Reactor because Ravens are Corvidae

[@Niclmaki]

Damn, I was thinking Corveous Reactor @13:00

[@MedicJR]

3:01 I BELIVE I CAN FLY, I BELIVE I CAN TOUCH THE SKY!

[@eimaioTzon]

I love all Terran games but this game is insane

[@TheNightmoose]

idk if I've ever seen pros intentionally yamato marines before XD

[@danielheikkila3352]

I was thinking all the time how different the game could be if one of the players would have trained one ghost using EMP against Ravens

[@EdgarTheOnion]

People think TvT is boring??? Man! TvT is such a difficult matchup to play and such an epic matchup to watch! its basically a test of mental endurance

[@pyorokun7]

@LowkoTV if you haven't lookup uThermal's Penguin Brother series. He absolutely shreds apart zerg armies with just landed vikings and hellbats, with Thors to round it up

[@phsycresconquest6636]

Raven’s really do make your opponent eat crow

[@Rattja]

Just wondering, when you have this many CCs and up against tanks, would it be worth dropping mules to make them do friendly fire?

[@Saidifect]

Wow.

[@2Sor2Fig]

14:45 - And all this time I thought siege tanks countered marines, when it should actually be the opposite.

[@pokeracef]

Lowko! Its a corvid reactor!

[@huylevi]

Lowko said a lot of Vipers in TvT

[@blueagleification]

Battle cruisers dominates oh yeahh

[@adriancastro3763]

maru is my role model😳

[@mightywolf4047]

Cattle Bruisers? WHAT???

[@wrathofcell]

why dont they add a medivac with widow mines into the mix they could just drop down on top of the stack?

[@PotatoMussab]

Lowko you used to flex to viewers that you knew the name of Corvid Reactor and now look at you.

[@ThePeteriarchy]

Games like this are the reason I love TvT no matter how many people call them "boring"

[@eliasjorge313]

Love ya

[@SuperKnight263]

BattleCruisers?! Maru?! Aight Im in

[@Sotman.]

Bcs on TvT less go.Btw fartaqus wasn't a bad guy lowko

[@Nukespeargaming]

I'm so sorry jimmy for getting hit by yamato cannon

[@trustfall_]

Non-topic question, but is this what you do for a living? (And in that case how do you manage that?)

[@En-Jon-eer]

Have you never heard of streamers before? Twitch? There are a lot of people who make a living by providing entertainment to others using youtube, twitch and ad revenue

[@LowkoTV]

Yes, making content is what I do for a living for quite a few years now. I made regular videos and livestreams for fun for a very long time (~8 years) before doing it full time.

[@spoonhoa6886]

epic game for sure.. i just got lowkos voice pack for SC2 .. he should update it .. his english is SO much more clear in his streams

[@markbateman1931]

Wow